By Jeff Bibler | Development Director
Dear Friends,
We wanted to give you an update on the beginnings of our new vitamin A projects in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Uttarakhand. Your donations of over $14,000 in June and July of this year through our new partnership with the crowdfunding platform GlobalGiving made this possible.
We're pleased to tell you that the first phase of reaching over 14,000 children in both states is underway. Project coordinators and trained volunteers are on the ground in the villages and rural areas of AP and Uttarakhand. They are interviewing families to determine if children age five and younger are receiving any vitamin A supplements while they educate the parents on the importance of adequate vitamin A in their children's diets. This data is entered into a database to help ensure that all registered children will receive vitamin A doses every six months. It is this kind of regularity that will strengthen a child's immune system and decrease the possibility that their eyesight might be affected by night blindness and other eye diseases.
The volunteers and project coordinators are also developing publicity campaigns and procuring needed supplies, such as gloves, hand sanitizer, and reporting forms. Publicity posters are being printed and distributed, and locations where the vitamins will be administered are being finalized, such as village schools.
We look forward to sharing with you more developments as these projects reach more families and register more children in the vitamin A program. The director of SevaChild, Rick Carlton, will be arriving in India in just a few weeks and he will send photos, videos, and testimonials from families benefiting from this program that we look forward to sharing with you in future reports. The photos we are including here are from past projects but give you an idea of what this preliminary work looks like.
Sincerely,
Jeff Bibler
Development Director
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